Too dumb for even D.C.: Listen to Bachmann on the budget

COMMENTS: Please don't add comments on this topic. They're getting repetitive and we will never solve the question of just what she meant to say in the above video. Go to my post contrasting her with Ron Paul and comment on the obvious falsehoods she made on another matter concerning the budget. On that one, at least, it's clear what she was trying to say for once - and that it was bad math at best and a lie at worst.

Listen to what Michele Bachmann has to say at the 1:08:50 mark of this video. She honestly appears to believe we could direct the secretary of the treasury to pay off all "pay off all debts of the United States, all interest, all obligations" now. (Note: I inserted the exact language and employed the italics because I noted that in the comments section various Bachmannites were claiming she called for paying off only the interest. If you can't understand plain English, this is not the blog for you.)

She then goes on to say she would balance the budget.

Huh? The debt is $14 trillion. We'd have to dedicate every cent of federal revenue for seven years to pay that off. That would mean the entire budget would have to be funded by - you guessed it - borrowing.

This is not an exception. This is the rule. She says stuff this dumb every day.

Are you the sort of person who excuses this sort of thing because you think her heart's in the right place?